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Associated Press • Friday July 26, 2013 8:39 AM

ORLANDO, Fla. — The second juror to speak publicly told ABC News in an interview made available
yesterday that she feels George Zimmerman got away with murder for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin,
but that there wasn’t enough evidence at trial to convict him under Florida law.

“I was the juror that was going to give them a hung jury,” she said. “I fought to the end.”

But by the second day of deliberating, she realized there wasn’t enough proof to convict the
29-year-old neighborhood-watch volunteer of a crime.

“George Zimmerman got away with murder, but you can’t get away from God,” she said. “And at the
end of the day, he’s going to have a lot of questions and answers he has to deal with.”

Zimmerman was acquitted this month of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges in the 2012
slaying of the unarmed 17-year-old. The Miami teenager was fatally shot during a confrontation with
Zimmerman in Sanford.

Juror B29 is the second panelist to go public with what went on during deliberations this month.
She allowed her face to be shown and used her first name, Maddy, unlike Juror B37, who was
interviewed on CNN with her face obscured.

Juror B29 said she feels like she owes Martin’s parents an apology.

“I felt like I let a lot of people down, and I’m thinking to myself, ‘Did I go the right way?
Did I go the wrong way?'" she said. “As much as we were trying to find this man guilty … they give
you a booklet that basically tells you the truth, and the truth is that there was nothing that we
could do about it.”

Meanwhile, An Ohio group — the Buckeye Firearms Foundation — has raised $12,150.37 to be spent
on guns or a security system for Zimmerman. The money also could be used to pay his defense
costs.

The group raised the funds because it says Zimmerman’s gun rights are being violated by the U.S.
Justice Department, which has taken all the evidence from his trial, including the gun that killed
Martin, as part of a civil-rights investigation.